part v • comparative legal history • kjell å modéer many who had gone through this ‘uprooting experience’, and having settled in the US had to start over from the beginning.48 Peczenik ultimately settled in Sweden, where he started his career at Stockholm and in 1978 was appointed professor of legal philosophy at the Lund University law faculty. Rheinstein, a German jurist educated in the Weimar Republic, chose to remain in exile after 1945. By that time he was so integrated into American legal culture that he preferred to stay settled in Chicago. It is possible Rabel’s difficulties on returning to Germany contributed to his decision. Instead, Rheinstein chose to visit Europe every year as a missionary for comparative law. It is telling that his introduction to comparative law appeared in German, but was never translated into English.49 Despite Rheinstein’s international reputation, acceptance by the Chicago law faculty was slow in coming. The legal realists dominated: Karl Llewellyn, the icon of American legal realism, was there, as was the famous professor of constitutional law, Philip Kurland. When the law professor Gerhard Casper, later president of Stanford University and an acquaintance of Rheinstein’s in the 1960s, arrived in Chicago, Kurland had told him, ‘if you at all want to play a role in this faculty you have to work with an important American field of law’.50 That was something Rheinstein never did. He gave classes in family law and inheritance law, but they were optional classes in the second or third year – at an elite American school for corporate lawyers they were not thought important. And Rheinstein taught comparative law, a field most of his colleagues knew nothing about.51 So when the curriculum was assessed, nobody knew how to evaluate his skills.52 48 UChicago, SCRC, Box 38, Folder 9, MRto Alexander Peczenik. 49 Max Rheinstein, Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung (Munich: Beck, 1972). 50 Gerhard Casper, ‘Max Rheinstein’, University of Chicago Law Review45 (1978), 510–13. 51 Interview with Lawrence Friedman in this volume, 105. 52 Interview with Gerhard Casper, Stanford, 9 Oct. 2014. 272 The law émigré
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